Steve Hammond

Center Director II-Technical

Steve Hammond is director of the Computational Science Center at the National Renewable
Energy Laboratory (NREL). He is responsible for developing and leading NREL's laboratory-wide
efforts in computational science. He initiates and oversees innovative research programs
in computational science, mathematics, and scientific computing in support of NREL's
Department of Energy (DOE)-based mission. This includes leading NREL's efforts in
energy efficient data centers.

Prior to NREL, Steve managed the Computational Sciences section at the National Center
for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). He led staff conducting research and development
in areas such as computational fluid dynamics and parallel communications algorithms
for parallel architectures. Steve was technical lead on the DOE-funded effort to develop
the first massively parallel version of NCAR's community climate model, CCM2, originally
developed for vector systems.